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160062 PS Blindfolded Opera? The Oratorio in 18th-Century Europe (2023S)

Continuous assessment of course work

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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

On Saturdays, the course will include lunch breaks from 11.45 am to 1.15 pm, as well as two 30-minute breaks around 2.45 pm and 4.45 pm.

  • Friday 03.03. 16:15 - 17:45 Digital
  • Friday 19.05. 15:15 - 18:00 Hörsaal 2 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-01
  • Saturday 20.05. 10:15 - 18:00 Hörsaal 2 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-01
  • Friday 16.06. 15:15 - 18:00 Hörsaal 2 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-01
  • Saturday 17.06. 10:15 - 18:00 Hörsaal 2 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-01
  • Friday 23.06. 15:15 - 18:00 Hörsaal 2 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-01
  • Saturday 24.06. 10:15 - 18:00 Hörsaal 2 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-01

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

For much of its development, the oratorio has also been conceived of against the background of opera, precisely because oratorios usually are not staged. This course explores the notion of oratorios as blindfolded opera with a focus on 18th-century compositions and their contemporary discourses, with particular attention to Handel's oratorios in England and works from the Venetian women's conservatories of the Ospedali.
Examining visionary scenes in the oratorios and studying contemporary discourses on vision, fantasy and imagination, as well as on visualization through processes of allegorization or symbolization, this course encourages students to understand the oratorios' music with its frequently asserted pictoriality as a genre best approached by theories of intermediality, thus also negotiating issues relevant to society and contemporary politics at large.

Assessment and permitted materials

During term, students will engage in groups, being responsible for designing their one session including a presentation and discussion. For the final grade, students will prepare a term paper as specified in their degree regulations.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Students have to present and design their own session as part of a group. For successful completion, writing a term paper is mandatory.

Examination topics

Students can choose their topics for papers based on the works, primary sources, and secondary literature discussed during the term.

Reading list

Selected literature:
Cabrini, Michele, «The Composer’s Eye: Focalizing Judith in the Cantatas by Jacquet de la Guerre and Brossard», in: Eighteenth-Century Music 9 (2012), H. 1, S. 9–45.
Cafiero, Rosa, «Conservatories and the Neapolitan School: A European Model at the End of the Eighteenth Century?», in: Musical Education in Europe (1770–1914). Compositional, Institutional, and Political Challenges, hrsg. von Michael Fend und Michel Noiray, Bd. 1, Berlin: BWV, 2005, S. 15–30.
Erhardt, Tassilo, Händels Messiah. Text. Musik. Theologie, Bad Reichenhall: Comes, 2007.
Föllmi, Beat A., «Johann Mattheson als Kirchenmusiker. Das Oratorium Der liebreiche und geduldige David von 1723», in: Musik – Raum – Akkord – Bild. Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Dorothea Baumann, Bern: Lang, 2012, S. 193–214.
Gardner, Matthew, «‹L‘allegro›, ‹Il penseroso› und ‹Il moderato›. Text und musikalische Bildersprache in Händels Arien», in: Händels Arien. Form, Affekt, Kontext, Laaber: Laaber, 2013 (Veröffentlichungen der Internationalen Händel-Akademie Karlsruhe, Bd. 10), S. 135–153.
Geyer, Helen, Das venezianische Oratorium 1750–1820: einzigartiges Phänomen und musikdramatisches Experiment, Laaber: Laaber, 2005 (Analecta musicological. Veröffentlichungen der Musikgeschichtlichen Abteilung des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Rom, Bd. 35).
–, «Die venezianischen Konservatorien im 18. Jahrhundert: Beobachtungen zur Auflösung eines Systems», in: Musical Education in Europe (1770–1914). Compositional, Institutional, and Political Challenges, hrsg. von Michael Fend und Michel Noiray, Bd. 2, Berlin: BWV, 2005, S. 31–48.
Hortschansky, Klaus, «Solomon. Ein symbolisches Oratorium?», in: Händel-Jahrbuch 52 (2006), S. 161–172.
Smith, Ruth, Handel’s Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought, Cambridge, New York und Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Zöllner, English Oratorio after Handel. The London Oratorio Series and its Repertory, 1760–1800, Marburg: Tectum, 2002.
Zywietz, Michael, «Die Vision vom Goldenen Zeitalter. Händels Solomon im Kontext der späten Oratorien», in: Beiträge zur Musik des Barock. Tanz, Oper, Oratorium – Bericht über die Symposien der Internationalen Händel-Akademie Karlsruhe 1994 bis 1997. Günter Könemann zum 65. Geburtstag, Laaber: Laaber, 1998 (Veröffentlichungen der Internationalen Händel-Akademie Karlsruhe, Bd. 6), S. 311–322.

Association in the course directory

BA: PRO, HIS-V2, FRE

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